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But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler Author:Peg Bracken Here is a travel book, in a way, a non-guide. It is about as full of odd thing as most suitcases are, including some personal encounters, some reflections, some home truths, and some traveling facts the author wishes she's been aware of before she started out. Asked what to put down here, Peg Bracken said dubiously. &... more »quot;Well, its a sort of how-to, isn't it? Or you might call it a what-to? Or a where to? Or a why-not-to?"
This much is known: She ate her way around France and talked her way, with indifferent success, from Tokyo to Bangkok to Dayton, Ohio. If you want to know how to make a Scottish oatcake, or say "Scram!" in Urdu, or what do they put in the iced tea at the Paris Pub, or what to do in a lonesome hotel room, this is your book.. It's probably your book anyway, if you like a personal book that is friendly and often funny. It is a comfortable book to read by the fire before you go, or in bed after you get back, or even--should worst get worse--standing in line waiting for Flight 321 departing at 4:15, now departing at 7:45...« less